Procurements in the First Half of 2025: Taking Stock!

The Procurement Department of SFE “Forests of Ukraine” concluded 142 contracts totaling UAH 1.5 billion.

They procured fuel, electricity, specialized machinery and vehicles, equipment, and tools for seed centers, timber harvesting, and much more.

Savings amounted to 14.1 percent, or UAH 237 million!

There are still 24 tenders in progress with a total expected value of UAH 738 million.

During this period, not a single lot was tendered in breach of legislation.

Only 4.2 percent of lots were contested by participants (and in the third quarter, this figure decreased to 1.1 percent).

Ninety‑nine percent of procurements were competitive.

Several significant changes were implemented in the Department’s operations during the first half of the year.

-Category management has been launched, meaning professional market engagement that includes consultations with manufacturers and importers and attracts a broader range of direct suppliers to the tenders.

–A Contract Division has been established: the process of approving and concluding contracts and addenda with counterparties is now more standardized, controlled, and incorporates an additional compliance‑check step.

-The procurement planning process has been automated by migrating to the Smart‑Tender.biz platform, where all actions (approvals, workflow, etc.) are conducted electronically.

-The analytical data structure on the Prozorro platform has been reorganized to enable statistics generation across all enterprise branches.

-A branch‑level procurement activity monitoring and performance evaluation system has been launched, complete with a rating mechanism.

-A new version of the Department’s regulation has been introduced, featuring an updated operational and role‑based management model.